These top 10 things we bet you didn’t know you can recycle are ready and waiting to be reduced, reused, and diverted away from our already abundant landfills. The editors at Co-op America have done all of the “dirty” work for you by finding new eco-friendlier homes for the garbage that doesn’t go into your standard municipal recycling bins. Check out the list below, then and leave comments with other creative ideas for reducing and recycling household waste.

1. Appliances

Goodwill accepts working appliances, www.goodwill.org, or you can contact the Steel Recycling Institute to recycle them. 800/YES-1-CAN, www.recycle-steel.org.

2. Batteries

Rechargeables and single-use: Battery Solutions, 734/467-9110, www.batteryrecycling.com.

3. Clothes

Wearable clothes can go to your local Goodwill outlet or shelter. Donate wearable women’s business clothing to Dress for Success, which gives them to low-income women as they search for jobs, 212/532-1922, www.dressforsuccess.org. Offer unwearable clothes and towels to local animal boarding and shelter facilities, which often use them as pet bedding. Consider holding a clothes swap at your office, school, faith congregation or community center. Swap clothes with friends and colleagues, and save money on a new fall wardrobe and back-to-school clothes.

4. Compact fluorescent bulbs

Take them to your local IKEA store for recycling: www.ikea.com.

5. Computers and electronics

Find the most responsible recyclers, local and national, at www.ban.org/pledge/Locations.html.

6. Exercise videos

Swap them with others at www.videofitness.com.

7. Eyeglasses

Your local Lion’s Club or eye care chain may collect these. Lenses are reground and given to people in need.

8. Foam packing

Your local pack-and-ship store will likely accept foam peanuts for reuse. Or, call the Plastic Loose Fill Producers Council to find a drop-off site: 800/828-2214. For places to drop off foam blocks for recycling, contact the Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers, 410/451-8340, www.epspackaging.org/info.html

9. Ink/toner cartridges

Recycleplace.com pays $1/each.

10. Phones

Donate cell phones: Collective Good will refurbish your phone and sell it to someone in a developing country: 770/856-9021, www.collectivegood.com. Call to Protect reprograms cell phones to dial 911 and gives them to domestic violence victims: www.donateaphone.com. Recycle single-line phones: Reclamere, 814/386-2927, www.reclamere.com.